The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Brighton region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 32 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 0.538% 1.404% -
As % of the Qualifications category 5.000% 13.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £263
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £16.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -1.56%
All Qualifications
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
20 30 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 10.75% 10.53% 7.317%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 4
Average daily rate £400 £400 £400
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £307 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £16.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
Microsoft Certification
East Sussex

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Brighton Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Brighton region.

Brighton Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Brighton region.

Brighton Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Microsoft Certification also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Microsoft Certification.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) CCNA
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 5 (100.00%) MCITP
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 4 (80.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (80.00%) MCTS
2 4 (80.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (80.00%) EMC
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) NetScreen
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) IIS
2 4 (80.00%) COM+
2 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) MCSE
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Microsoft Certification also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 4 (80.00%) IIS
1 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) NetScreen
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Server Specialist
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCNA
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 5 (100.00%) MCITP
2 4 (80.00%) MCTS
3 1 (20.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) StorageTek
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix